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busboy
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a restaurant attendant who sets tables and assists waiters and clears away dirty dishes [syn: waiter's assistant ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also bus-boy , 1913, from bus (v.) in the restaurant sense + boy .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A busboy is someone who assists the waiting staff in the restaurant and catering industry. Busboy may also refer to:
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Assistant waiter; one who clears plates from and cleans tables; one who buses
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A busboy kills time by folding napkins. ▪ A woman in a Chanel suit squeezes past a busboy and peers into the kitchen. ▪ Each section is staffed by waiters and busboys who serve the plated meals to the passengers. ▪ For upstairs ...
Usage examples of busboy.
On the lowest, dampest, and grimiest level is the locker room and off-duty space for the busboys who, at the Plaza, are exclusively black and ninety percent West-Indian.
You remember Blore slashed out at the handsome busboy who had overpersuaded Mrs.
As we were taught in our earliest days of training, anyone could be a threat to the president: Busboys, bellmen, barbers.
Arriving and departing passengers might be checked out thoroughly, but cooks, bartenders, waitresses, and busboys often had the run of the place, simply because they served a necessary function in keeping impatient flyers happy.
One of the busboys came in from outside, a draft of cold air following him in.
The overhead lights had come on and the busboys were now stacking chairs on the tabletops.
Behind us, the busboys and waiters were already breaking the room down, snatching off the stiff linens to reveal the plywood circles with folding legs that lay beneath.
On Monday evening, the Immigration and Naturalization Service paid a visit to one of the busboys, who held a counterfeit green card.
TRICKLE-DOWN IMMORALITY WHEN I WAS SEVENTEEN, I had a job as a busboy at a hotel up in the Catskill Mountains of New York.
In a series of fluid motions, the busboy took away our empty plates and the waiter presented the main course.
While she was looking for a busboy to help her carry things to various cars, she suddenly heard a loud scream, then numerous shouts and absolute chaos.
Second, the word mate really meant waiter, busboy, garbageman, slopsman, fish-gutter, ass-kisser and drudge.
I watched until the busboy disappeared around the corner, moving into the bar.
Brokebaugh just spares me the humiliation of denouncing Gregorio as a former busboy in Yincenti's wop restaurant in West Fiftieth Street and still wanted for robbing the damper of thirty-six dollars.
She made it through secretarial school, but Miguel, you know, he's a busboy and, after all that time working around all the liquor he can steal, he's also a drunk.